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Travel guide got it right on loyalist murals

Posted By: June 20, 2019

  Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, June 19, 2019  Shock, horror, sensation! Someone wrote what’s staring everyone in the face about Belfast’s murals.Fodor’s Travel Guide wrote that murals in Protestant areas like the Newtownards Road and the Shankill “sometimes look like war comics without the humor.”  On the other hand, murals in Catholic districts are ‘wildly romantic’ and express ‘themes […]

BALLYMURPHY PRECEDENCE–PULITZER CENTER REVIEW

Posted By: June 18, 2019

https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/filmmaker-shares-thoughts-after-us-premiere-ballymurphy-precedent   Filmmaker Shares Thoughts After U.S. Premiere of ‘The Ballymurphy Precedent’ June 17, 2019 | General news BY DAN HAVERTY [The back of Fr. McManus’ head and Barbara Flaherty’s head are in the foreground, Irish National Caucus.] Film director Callum Macrae speaks with Pulitzer Center Contributing Editor Kem Sawyer. Image by Dan Haverty. Washington, D.C., 2019. […]

Carson was hoodwinked by Tories… his words should be nailed to DUP HQ

Posted By: June 17, 2019

  Conservative hardliners are not interested in NI; their mission is to get BoJo into Number 10   Alban Maginness . Belfast Telegraph. April 3 2019   Sir Edward Carson, reflecting on the struggle against Home Rule and the partitioning of Ireland, ruefully stated: “I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so […]

How the Truth of ‘The Troubles’ Is Still Suppressed

Posted By: June 16, 2019

  Alex Gibney. The New York Review of Books. February 22, 2019 On August 31, 2018, I was in the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, waiting for my flight to New York, when I received this text on WhatsApp: “Trevor and Barry had their doors kicked in this morning in dawn raids and are presently in […]

Nationalists are not so sure about the policing system they initially embraced

Posted By: June 16, 2019

Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, June 15, 2019 Why should a police officer’s religion matter? The question arises from the outgoing chief constable’s criticism of Nationalist politicians for not encouraging more Catholics to join the PSNI. George Hamilton’s aim is presumably to achieve 50-50 recruitment from Protestants and Catholics. That might mean giving some […]

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